Professionally this app is great because it will help me find school appropriate apps that I could use in my classroom. I can share these apps with my team and the media specialist and potentially get the apps on the school iPads or iPods. Thus, allowing many people to access the great apps. I found a free app called PDF Scanner which allows you to use the ipad to scan any document into a PDF file. I thought this would be cool to take scan in student work and they could add it to their Google Account and they would always have access to it. With a little bit of work, students could potentially create an electronic portfolio of their work for the school year.
Personally, Apps Gone Free is going to help me find fre learning apps that my own children can use. While I was exploring I found five apps that I downloaded for my four year old. All the apps dealt with shapes, numbers, and writing skills. One was a memory game with shapes and colors. I like to find new things to keep my daughter interested in learning, just like I do I with my students.
My students, would appreciate new apps that they can use. I found a few free apps that worked with addition and multiplication facts. Multiplication and division facts are something my tier two and three fifth graders really need to practice. I found an app that is for tallying. I think this would be so cool during our probability and graphing units. We would save paper because they students could create multiple online or electronic tally marks rather than using several pieces of paper. It would be cleaner than using mini white boards too. I found a few spelling apps which would be fun during word work stations in language arts.
I think the best part about Apps Gone Free is that all of the apps are free for a short window if time. Each day there are new apps and you can try an app without the fear of wasting money. I think I will use this a lot.
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